The DA-BAFS Organic Agriculture Division, in collaboration with the DA-MIMAROPA, with the assistance from the Provincial Agriculture’s Office of Palawan and the Municipal Agriculture’s Offices of the Municipality of Aborlan and Quezon, conducted a supervised certification for the Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) Groups in the province from November 11 to 15, 2024. The activity aimed to provide technical assistance to the accredited PGS group, ensuring that their organic certification process—covering receiving and processing a farmer member’s application for certification, preparation for peer review, conducting the peer review, evaluating peer review findings, formulating and endorsing certification decisions, to finally issuing the Participatory Organic Certificate—is conducted in full compliance with the group’s Manual of Operations (MOO). A critical component of this activity is the supervised peer review, which is intended to guide peer reviewers in verifying the compliance of applicant farmer members with the PGS group’s Internal Standards (IS).#OAtechnicalassistance#PGSforOA#OrganicAgriculture#BAFSonthemove#DABAFS Supervised Certification of PGS Group (Aborian and Quezon, Palawan) November 21, 2024 DA-BAFS Assessment Team conducted an assessment to a core PGS Group based in Amadeo, Cavite November 21, 2024 Surveillance Audit to an Accredited PGS Group (Dimiao, Bohol) November 21, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Itogon, Benguet) November 14, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Cabatuan, Iloilo) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to Core PGS Farmer – Members (Romblon) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to PGS Core Farmers – Members. Oriental Mindoro November 14, 2024 In celebration of the Mental Health Month, the DA-Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards conducted a seminar titled “Mental Health Check-In” October 30, 2024 1 2 3 4
DA-BAFS Assessment Team conducted an assessment to a core PGS Group based in Amadeo, Cavite
The DA-BAFS Assessment Team conducted an assessment to a core PGS Group based in Amadeo, Cavite on November 19-22 November 2024. The initial assessment is composed of an office-based assessment and witnessing of the group’s peer review. The assessment aims to verify the compliance of the group with the accreditation requirements for them to operate as an organic certifying body ensuring they conduct certification in a competent, consistent, and impartial manner.The assessment was assisted by the DA-RFO and DA-ATI RTC of CALABARZON together with the representatives of the Local Government Unit of the Province of Cavite.Learn more about the accreditation of PGS group as OCB through this link: bit.ly/OrganicPGS#OAassessment#PGSforOA#OrganicAgriculture#BAFSonthemove#DABAFS DA-BAFS Assessment Team conducted an assessment to a core PGS Group based in Amadeo, Cavite November 21, 2024 Surveillance Audit to an Accredited PGS Group (Dimiao, Bohol) November 21, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Itogon, Benguet) November 14, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Cabatuan, Iloilo) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to Core PGS Farmer – Members (Romblon) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to PGS Core Farmers – Members. Oriental Mindoro November 14, 2024 In celebration of the Mental Health Month, the DA-Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards conducted a seminar titled “Mental Health Check-In” October 30, 2024 Pre-Inspection of Core PGS Farmer – Members. Tagum City, Davao del Norte October 24, 2024 1 2 3 4
Surveillance Audit to an Accredited PGS Group (Dimiao, Bohol)
As part of ensuring continued compliance of an accredited PGS group with the accreditation requirements, a surveillance was conducted for Bohol Participatory Guarantee System Association (BPGSA) in Dimiao, Bohol on November 11-14, 2024. Office-based assessment and witnessing of their peer reviews were part of the surveillance assessment.The DA-BAFS Assessment Team was joined and assisted by the representatives from DA-RFO and DA-ATI RTC of Central Visayas, and from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist of the Province of Bohol during the conduct of surveillance.#OAassessment#PGSforOA#OrganicAgriculture#BAFSonthemove#DABAFS Surveillance Audit to an Accredited PGS Group (Dimiao, Bohol) November 21, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Itogon, Benguet) November 14, 2024 Surveillance Audit of an Accredited PGS OCB (Cabatuan, Iloilo) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to Core PGS Farmer – Members (Romblon) November 14, 2024 Pre-Inspection to PGS Core Farmers – Members. Oriental Mindoro November 14, 2024 In celebration of the Mental Health Month, the DA-Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Standards conducted a seminar titled “Mental Health Check-In” October 30, 2024 Pre-Inspection of Core PGS Farmer – Members. Tagum City, Davao del Norte October 24, 2024 Inspection of CORE PGS Farmer – Members October 24, 2024 1 2 3